Analyze & FDS Summer Edition: Data That Works for You

Data should work for your team, not the other way around. The Summer Edition brings AI directly into your analytics experience, turning dashboards from passive displays into active tools that surface insights, answer questions, and generate reports on demand. Alongside these AI capabilities, Google My Business data is now available natively in Facelift Data Studio, expanding your analytics coverage to one of the most important local presence channels.

AI-Powered Section Analysis

Understanding what your data is telling you used to mean manually reviewing metrics, spotting patterns, and drawing your own conclusions. Now Facelift does it for you automatically.

With AI-Powered Section Analysis, Facelift analyses the metrics of any selected section in Analyze and delivers specific, data-driven recommendations without any manual effort. Open Analyze, apply your filters, and once the data has loaded, click the Facelift AI icon in the top right corner of any section to get started.

• Instant analysis, no setup. Summaries and recommendations are generated automatically, no prompts, no configuration required.
• Data-driven recommendations. The AI goes beyond describing what the numbers show, delivering actionable next steps based on your actual performance data.
• Works across your existing dashboards. No new tools or workflows to learn, AI analysis is built directly into the Analyze experience you already use.

AI-Powered Section Analysis turns your dashboards into a source of active guidance, giving teams faster access to the insights that drive better decisions.

Conversational AI for Your Dashboards

Sometimes you know what you want to understand, but the data to get there is buried across multiple sections and metrics. Conversational AI lets you ask for it directly.

Interact with your analytics dashboards using natural language, ask questions, request summaries, or generate visual reports directly within your dashboard. Click the AI icon in the upper-right corner to open the chat, then choose from suggested prompts or ask your own questions.

• Your data, on your terms. Ask anything, from high-level performance summaries to specific metric breakdowns and get answers instantly.
• Natural language, no technical knowledge required. Anyone on the team can query their dashboards without needing to know how to build reports or navigate complex filters.
• Visual reports on demand. Generate structured, shareable reports directly from a conversation, no manual assembly needed.

Conversational AI transforms the way teams interact with their data, making analytics accessible to everyone and surfacing answers at the speed of a question.

Google My Business in Facelift Data Studio

For brands with a local or multi-location presence, Google My Business is one of the most important channels to track and now its data is fully available in Facelift Data Studio.

Three data sources are included, each with support for daily, weekly, monthly, and total interval breakdowns, with historical data going back up to two years.

• Performance metrics. Track how users find and interact with your locations on Google, including impressions on Maps and Search, website link clicks, direction requests, and click-to-call actions.
• Local posts. Monitor the volume and detail of posts published per location, including content, state, and timestamps.
• Reviews. Track total reviews received, answered and unanswered reviews, average star rating, per-star counts, and reply rate, giving a complete picture of your local reputation.
• Every metric explained. Consistent with the FDS experience, every metric comes with a summary and description for easy access and understanding.

Google My Business in FDS closes a significant gap for brands managing local presence at scale, bringing one of the most impactful channels for customer discovery and trust directly into your unified analytics environment.